Interview with literary critic J. Hillis Miller 26 February 2017 Members of the Society who attended the annual lecture last year given by Frederik van Dam will have seen excerpts from his interview with one of the most important literary... Read more
Serendipity among the Victorian Blogs 27 November 2016 One of the nice things if, like me, you are a Victorian trapped in the 21st century is the network of blogs about the era. You can wander from one... Read more
Alliance of Literary Societies Annual Gathering 8 June 2016 The Annual Meeting of the Alliance of Literary Societies took place last weekend at Haworth on the bleak Yorkshire Moors as guests of the Bronte Society who are celebrating the bicentenary of... Read more
York Group decides to Forgive Her 22 February 2016 The York Seminar Group of the Trollope Society met to discuss Can You Forgive Her? Ginny Masters describes their conclusions: On the whole, we thought that we could and, indeed, should Forgive. We approached... Read more
Dispossession: A novel of few words 9 September 2015 In an unusual departure for the Alliance of Literary Societies, the keynote presentation following the formal business of the 2015 AGM was about "A novel of few words" - as Dispossession,... Read more
Barchester Towers: A musical take on our bicentenary Big Read 3 August 2015 Barchester Towers is the Trollope Society’s “Big Read” to mark the bicentenary of his birth in 1815. A genuinely funny social comedy, Barchester Towers also examines some of the real... Read more
Reading Trollope and Joyce on Bloomsday 16 June 2015 They are, without doubt, an odd couple, Anthony Trollope and James Joyce. If size matters, Trollope wins hands down with his overflowing output of 47 novels and more than fifty... Read more
Trollope 200 Plus 1 June 2015 It seems almost incredible that we have reached the middle of Anthony Trollope’s Bicentenary year and, so far, the response to all the activities and the related initiatives and events... Read more